High Throughput Biology Conference Conference Details Date: April 19 - 23, 2011 Location: Suzhou, China Website: www.csh-asia.org Organizers Edward Rubin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and DOE Joint Genome Institute Bing Ren, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and UCSD Tian Xu, Yale University and Fudan University Conference Overview We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on High Throughput Biology, which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will begin at 7:30pm on the evening of Tuesday April 19, and will conclude after lunch on Saturday April 23, 2011. This conference retains the essence of the prestigious Cold Spring Harbor NY meetings series. It will include eight oral sessions, one poster session, and one panel discussion. The purpose of the panel discussion is to facilitate collaborations among academic and non-academic institutions in the area of high throughput biology. Major Topics High throughput approaches for manipulating the genome High throughput phenotyping Gene regulatory networks High throughput chemical biology Linking genetic variations to biology and disease New technologies for high throughput biology Computational Biology and modeling Panel Topics Policy and funding opportunities for international collaboration in systems biology. Bridging the gap between conventional and high throughput biological approaches. Enhancing collaborations between academic and non-academic institutions. Keynote Speakers Gerald Rubin, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, USA Sung Hee Baek, Seoul National University, KOREA Allan Bradley, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK Sheng Ding, The Scripps Research Institute, USA William Hahn, Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, USA Helen Hobbs, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA Nancy Jenkins, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore Manolis Kellis, MIT, USA X. Shirley Liu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, USA Yanxi Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Huck-Hui Ng, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School, USA Stephen Quake, University of Stanford and HHMI, USA Kanury V S Rao, ICGEB Laboratories, INDIAN Michael Snyder, Stanford University, USA Masaru Tomita, Keio University, Japan Jun Wang, Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, China Jonathan Weissman, UCSF/HHMI, USA Barbara Wold, California Institute of Technology, USA Sunney Xie, Harvard University, USA Songyang Zhou, Zhongshan University, China Contact Information Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences Mike Ji Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center No.299 Qiyue Road, SIP/ Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China Phone: +86 512 6272 9029 Fax: +86 512 6272 9028 E-mail: mikeji@csh-asia.org